Staff Engineer
Capital One1 day ago
Richmond, VA, USA +2 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$269k - $307k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and evangelize a technical vision for the assigned domain.
- Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions.
- Ensure the quality of technical designs and implementations.
- Provide expertise on performance, scalability, operability, and other non-functional system characteristics.
- Modernize monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms.
- Define long-term platform strategy and API standards with engineering and architecture leaders.
- Lead cross-divisional projects and architectural reviews.
- Mentor engineers, coach technical communities, and support professional development.
- Create technical communications, code samples, blog posts, and knowledge-sharing materials.
- Balance hands-on engineering, innovation, mentoring, and multiple concurrent projects.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
- At least 7 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture, enterprise architecture and design patterns, cloud computing, and data architecture.
- Preferred master’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.
- Preferred 10+ years of experience with web technologies, distributed HPC and ML systems, cloud computing, and data architecture.
- Preferred 10+ years of professional coding experience with languages such as Go, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Rust, C#, and Scala.
- Preferred 8+ years of experience with databases and database management systems.
- Preferred 10+ years of full-lifecycle system development experience.
- Preferred 8+ years with public cloud platforms, cloud productivity tools, or virtualization technologies.
- Preferred 10+ years with networking protocols and third-party distributed-system integration.
- Preferred 5+ years mentoring senior engineers and driving professional development.
- Preferred 2+ years leading cross-domain architectural reviews and establishing coding and design standards.
- Expertise in the strategic application of agentic AI coding tools is preferred.
Benefits
- Capital One offers comprehensive health, financial, and other benefits supporting employee well-being, with eligibility varying by employment and management status.
- The role is eligible for performance-based incentive compensation, including potential cash bonuses and long-term incentives.
- The position is available in McLean, Virginia; Plano, Texas; Richmond, Virginia, and other locations subject to applicable location-based pay ranges.
- Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
- The posting accepts applications for a minimum of 5 business days.
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About Capital One
Capital One is a U.S. consumer and commercial bank that offers credit cards, checking and savings accounts, auto financing, and lending to small and large businesses. It earns revenue from interest income and interchange/fees across its card and banking products, and develops cloud-based digital services. Founded in 1994, Capital One is publicly traded on the NYSE (COF) and is headquartered in McLean, Virginia.